Art

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  • Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
        Isaac Newton   Best?
  • The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
        François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
  • Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
        Laurence J. Peter   Best?
  • The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
        Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
  • HIPPOGRIFF, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, a one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
        Steven Wright   Best?
  • Evil is relative…You can't hang a sign on it. You can't touch it or taste it or cut it with a sword. Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
        Glen Cook   Best?
  • I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
        Percy Bysshe Shelley   Best?
  • Specialization is for insects.
        Robert A. Heinlein   Best?
  • Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
        Hans Christian Andersen   Best?
  • A person's a person, no matter how small.
        Dr. Seuss   Best?
  • It's not the critic who counts. Not the man who points out how the doer of deeds might have done them better. Instead, the credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by sweat and blood and tears.
        Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
  • He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall.
        J. R .R. Tolkien   Best?
  • No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.
        Anne Rice   Best?
  • Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Music critics get their records for free so their opinions usually don't matter.
        Marilyn Manson   Best?
  • This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
        Voltaire   Best?
  • When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'
        Alfred Hitchcock   Best?
  • Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
        Sextus Propertius   Best?
  • I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.
        A. F. Shaw   Best?
  • Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • George Washington as a boy was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth - he could not even lie.
        Mark Twain   Best?
  • The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
        Samuel Taylor Coleridge   Best?
  • WIT, n. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.
        Beverly Sills   Best?
  • Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
        John F. Kennedy   Best?
  • Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
        Woody Allen   Best?
  • Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
        C. S. Lewis   Best?
  • Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.
        Sigmund Freud   Best?
  • Art is the illusion of spontaneity.
        Japanese Proverb   Best?
  • The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.
        Agnes de Mille   Best?
  • I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • ...my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
  • An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
        Charles Darwin   Best?
  • Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.
        R. Buckminster Fuller   Best?
  • God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
        Bill Watterson   Best?
  • I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
        Jim Morrison   Best?

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